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...courts. On the school campus we have no room for courts so I leave our tennis net on the porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...
There is much to be said for a system of divided control which places at least part of the responsibility for a sport in the hands of the undergraduates and graduates most concerned and which prevents the development of extreme professionalism in the person of an athletic dictator. Such a system has been the keystone of athletic policy at Harvard and has saved the College from the evil of abject submission to an all-powerful coach, which has been common in other colleges. But when the system of divided control encroaches on the efficiency of coaching and leads...
...meeting today in the New Lecture Hall, men will be given an opportunity to elect their lecture section, and, if they are not participating in some organized sport, their exercise period...
...rowing season of 1928-24, heralded by many as the beginning of a revival in this sport at Harvard under the leadership of Coach Edward A, Stevens, will open officially at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon with a meeting of all candidates in Newell boathouse. Coach Stevens and Captain B. McK. Henry '24 will speak briefly...
...pursuance of his general policy of making crew a universal sport, Coach Stevens is extending the summons to all men in the upper classes, regardless of experience. This is made possible because the new system, differing in many respects from that inaugurated last year by Coach Muller, will naturally come with difficulty to those veterans who have mastered the intricacies of the old stroke and thus presents a wider opportunity, than ever before for new material to come to the fore...